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CHAPTER THREE Study General information web sites
The Library of Congress's American Memory collection is a gateway to numerous papers, presentations, critical
thinking exercises, and first-hand accounts that address African American,
American Indian, and women's history; immigration; religion; and cultural
issues from architecture to advertising. You'll also find maps from the
Revolutionary and Civil Wars, American colonization, and even the development
of the first railroads. The Library of Congress Exhibitions
web site provides in-depth and interactive
information on many important events in America's founding. Exhibitions include
Declaring
Independence: Drafting the Documents, which
explores the chronology of events and writing processes that led up to the
Declaration of Independence, and Religion and the Founding of the
American Republic. View the original pages of over 100
milestone documents including the Declaration of Independence,
U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and countless others at the National Archives and Records Administration. The American Revolution
Liberty! The
American Revolution is a companion web site for
the acclaimed PBS documentary series by the same name. It has an incredible
amount of information, including actual newspaper articles from during the
Revolutionary War. (See Exercises.) Influential documents
Read the full text of the Articles of Confederation, America's
first constitution, on the University of Oklahoma's Law Center web site. Read Common
Sense on the Archiving
Early America web site, a virtual library of
primary source material from eighteenth-century America. Many scholars argue
that this essay by Thomas Paine sparked the American Revolution. (See
Exercises.) A complete library of The Federalist Papers
appears on
the web site for the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. You can search for specific
papers by subject, number, and author, and also be a click away from other
primary source material influenced by them. The Constitution
The web site for the National Constitution Center has educational resources, an interactive Constitution, a
constitutional timeline, and other information on the historical context of
this founding document. (See Exercises.) Teaching
American History is a dynamic site with
extensive coverage of the Constitutional Convention, which includes select
speech transcripts, interactive maps, and much more. The site also features
hundreds of links to audio lectures and discussions (requires Real Player) by
scholars around the country and a historical document library organized by eras
and presidencies. Founding
Father Bibliographies is a site that includes a
brief biography of every person who signed the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and even those who attended the Convention but didn't sign the
Constitution. KEEPING THE REPUBLIC Surprisingly few Americans have taken the time to read the documents that shaped our nation. Get a firsthand view of the founding by reading some of the following documents. Some of these are reprinted in the Appendix to this book; the rest can be accessed through links above.
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